The Somerset reporter., 1887-06-08

Tenebreuse was the winner Of the gran
prize Of Paris in the race ut Chantilly.
Belgian lahorers threaten to reopen the
strikes unless their demands are acceded to.
George H Wilson was found guilty OF the
murder Of Wakefield Game 5 in Philadelphia.
annual encampmoat of the Vermont depart
ment of the Grand Army.
Gen. James S. Speed, President Lincoln's
attorney general, is dying near Louisville,
Ky.
The yellow fever at Key West is on the
increase, and stringent quarantine rules are
enforced.
It's expected that President Cleveland
will leave the Adirondacks for Washington,
Thursday.
Chairman Donnelly, OF the Massachusetts,
board of lunacy and charity has resigned
his office.
Ex-Secretary Manning and family are on
their way home ON the Baltic Of the White
Star line
Austin, Tex, business men offer $40, 900
and eighty acres of land for home for indi-
gent printers.
Mrs Wileman. charged with the muir cr
Ol Her HuSbullI was hS'IuiNVNN ~ Nv
Little Valley, y. Y.
George r. Parks a young actor of Bos-
ton, is missing, and it IL feared that he has
committed suicide.
A Chicago masked burglar has been DE
tectei by irving to sell a stolen bond, after
holding it six years.
Michael Daytt told the people Of Bodyke
that Oh Sunday next he would lead them in
the work OF rebuilding their cabins.
The collector Of cuSto ms at San Francisco
has hem given strict or ders to prevent the
landing of conyicts from New Caledonia.
Seventeen families from county Kerry,
ireland, who say they have friends in Mas
sachusetts, ara held paupers in New
York
The Cunard steamer Umbria has made
the quickest passage on record-less than
six days-between Queenstown and New
York
Eight men were killed by the premature
explosion OF a blast at Birmingham, Penn,
and three by n similar accident at Benne-
water, n y.
Col Hernandez of the Mexican army,
having captured fourteen bandits whom he
had been chasing some days, summarily ex-
ecuted them.
Teller Hornbower, of the Hoboken Saw
ings bank, is missing. His accounts are said
to be straight, and his friends fear suicide
through i'll health.
1t is rumored that Judge Kelley, after the
close of his present term in congress, will
remove his residence to Alabama, on ac-
count of throat trouble,
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rocks Off Sambro Head, Halifax harbor and
started leak. Her escape from being
wrecked was very narrow.
Bucketshop managers in Chicago intend
to fight the law, just passed by the Illinois
legislature, making all trades where there is
no intention Of delivery illegal.
A jealous husband at Middlebury, Mich,
beheaded his wife disemboweled his EN-
ployer of whom he was jealous, and at
tempt d suicide by cutting his own throat.
1t is believed that the railway companies
will unite ere long in testing the constitu-
tonality Of the interstate law. An effort
will also he made to show that the commits
sion is not legal body, never having been
confirmed by the senate.
The directors of the Bennington Battle
Monument association have voted to ask the
grand lodge of Masons of Vermont to lay the
corner stone, Aug l6. 1t is expected that
the annual muster of the First regiment of
militia will he held that week, also the semi
The Farmers Review says: Continued
rains throughout many portions of the west
since our last issue have wrought a general
improvement in the crop conditions, es-
pecially in the spring crops and in the
meadows and pastures Harvest has al
ready commenced in the southern winter
wheat sections, and this crop is nearly past
all danger.